Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hangingnew

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-	They pick me up, put me in a tent.	0:00
	I had to sit on the floor	0:03
	and I was shackled, my hands from my back.	0:06
	And they came with, with something.	0:11
	I didn't saw it before.	0:16
	It was the first time I saw it.	0:18
	It's like a box.	0:20
	Like a echo. It's like a battery.	0:24
	It's something like a battery.	0:28
	And there was two things.	0:30
	Then you can, it's like, its looks like,	0:35
	like those whats the doctor is using for people	0:40
	who had, who his heart not working anymore.	0:45
	I don't know how it's called.	0:48
	Something like	0:49
	electroshock?	0:52
Interviewer	Mm-hmm. Right.	0:53
-	What did doctor wanna use.	0:54
Interviewer	Mm-hmm.	0:56
-	Yeah, it's looked like, it's looked very similar.	0:57
	It was just little bit old, I guess.	1:00
	So they used on my feet.	1:02
	They used on my feets.	1:06
	They put it on my, on my toe.	1:08
	Toes?	1:11
Interviewer	Right.	1:12
-	Yeah? And,	1:13
	of course if they use electroshocks	1:17
	on you, you can't talk, and	1:19
	they didn't ask me if I will sign or not.	1:23
	They said just do you like it? Is it good like that?	1:26
	They just keep doing it and I couldn't say anything.	1:30
	After then, after then, they brought me just back.	1:35
	The next day they asked me if I'm going to sign or not.	1:39
	And if not, they will continue	1:42
	to try everything to make me sign.	1:47
	And	1:50
	I said, I will not sign.	1:53
	They, after then, after a while they put me in	1:56
	an hangar. It's,	2:00
	they hang me on chains	2:04
	by my hand. I had, I had short handcuffs on my hands.	2:06
	And those handcuffs, they wrap it with a chain	2:11
	and pull me on the ceiling by those chains.	2:15
	The end of my feets used to hang over the floor.	2:17
	And I had also had, I had also shackles on my legs.	2:21
	So whole my body used to hang on the, over the floor, and	2:27
	They did it.	2:34
	The doctor came a couple hours later, the doctor came.	2:37
	And when the doctor came, they put me back down.	2:40
	He checked my eyes and he checked my finger	2:44
	see, he looked, if everything is okay, if I can survive,	2:47
	if I can survive more or not.	2:53
	And he said, okay, then they put me just like up.	2:56
	And he said, every time, okay.	3:00
	He came and he checked my eyes and everything.	3:02
	After then he said, okay. They put me back up.	3:07
	And the doctor came twice, like twice a day	3:10
	And the interrogator, also he came twice a day.	3:15
Interviewer	Did they talk to you while you	3:18
	were hanging or they just let you hang?	3:20
-	When the interrogator came, they put me back down.	3:22
	And he asked me if I will sign or not.	3:26
	If I will sign, they said they will stop it.	3:30
	And the	3:32
	the last, the last,	3:36
	the last couple of days	3:40
	I can't remember one because I start to pass out	3:41
	and it was the same thing.	3:45
	Like three, the first three days, I could remember what.	3:48
	Just the last two days I can't remember.	3:51
	After, after they brought me back	3:53
	I asked the other prisoners how long I did stay away.	3:56
	They told me it was five days.	4:01

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Title:

Kurnaz, Murat - short clip - Hangingnew

Date:

August 19, 2009

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Kurnaz, Murat

Role:

Detainee

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Number US9TU-000061DP
Murat Kurnaz, male 27, age, Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, was detained in Guantanamo from February 13, 2002 until August 24, 2006, when he was released to Germany.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

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Format:

oral histories

Language:

English

Extent:

2:13:42

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